Phase separation inside mammalian cells regulates the formation of the biomolecular condensates that are related to gene expression, signalling, development and disease. However, a large population of endogenous condensates and their candidate phase-separating proteins have yet to be discovered in a quantitative and high-throughput manner. Here we demonstrate that endogenously expressed biomolecular condensates can be identified across a cell's proteome by sorting proteins across varying oligomeric states. We employ volumetric compression to modulate the concentrations of intracellular proteins and the degree of crowdedness, which are physical regulators of cellular biomolecular condensates. The changes in degree of the partition of proteins into condensates or phase separation led to varying oligomeric states of the proteins, which can be detected by coupling density gradient ultracentrifugation and quantitative mass spectrometry. In total, we identified 1,518 endogenous condensate proteins, of which 538 have not been reported before. Furthermore, we demonstrate that our strategy can identify condensate proteins that respond to specific biological processes. High-throughput proteome-wide methods for identifying endogenous proteins that phase separate or partition into condensates during certain physiological events are needed but remain a challenge. Now, a high-throughput, unbiased and quantitative strategy can identify endogenous biomolecular condensates and screen proteins involved in phase separation on a proteome-wide scale.
基金:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) [32171248, 12102142, 22074047, 21775049, 31700746]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [2021GCRC056]; Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities (HUST)
第一作者单位:[1]Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol, Coll Life Sci & Technol, Dept Biomed Engn, Hubei Bioinformat & Mol Imaging Key Lab,Key Lab Bi, Wuhan, Hubei, Peoples R China
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Li Pengjie,Chen Peng,Qi Fukang,et al.High-throughput and proteome-wide discovery of endogenous biomolecular condensates[J].NATURE CHEMISTRY.2024,doi:10.1038/s41557-024-01485-1.
APA:
Li, Pengjie,Chen, Peng,Qi, Fukang,Shi, Jinyun,Zhu, Wenjie...&Li, Yiwei.(2024).High-throughput and proteome-wide discovery of endogenous biomolecular condensates.NATURE CHEMISTRY,,
MLA:
Li, Pengjie,et al."High-throughput and proteome-wide discovery of endogenous biomolecular condensates".NATURE CHEMISTRY .(2024)